Forest School News

13th January 2020

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Firs had a marvellous time this week, enjoying all sorts of different activities. An old favourite-mud making and painting-was as popular as ever…
 
The children loved investigating the buckets and ropes-focusing on this activity for much longer than we’d normally see them concentrate!
 
We also did some counting (and addition), played  on the stage, created a ‘home’ for  the  worms in the digging pit…and had a little chat to some of the worms that we found!
Games, sorting, remembering and making…
 
Acers had a wonderful morning, proving how much they had learnt and remembered from last week’s session.

We started off with a number line activity…everyone decided which numbers they should stand in front of…depending on how many forest animals they thought they could name. We tested them out and the children were surprisingly accurate!
 
Then we looked again at all the animal pictures and recapped the names of their homes. Next we sorted the habitats into 3 groups-underground, on the  ground and above the ground…
 
Next we played the circle game introduced last week…making it a  little harder this week by calling out the names of the homes (den/warren/nest/sett etc) instead of the animal names. Acers had to look at their picture and respond to their home by running around the outside of the circle. They really enjoyed playing this game and showed us how well they are learning this new information, by responding correctly and at times very quickly!
 
Then we headed back to the log circle to listen to a story-‘The Best Nest’. You can listen to it here…
 
We looked at a real nest that had been made by a robin, and decided to have a go at making some nests ourselves. We worked together to find small sticks to make a nest shape on the ground…
 
These boys worked really well together to make a spectacular nest, complete with a door, a long stick at the side to guard it and upright sticks around the edge to protect it!
 
Well done Acers…what a brilliant morning we all had.